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The Revolution is in Progress
Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution.
Symbiotic Earth explores the life and ideas of scientific rebel Lynn Margulis who challenged entrenched theories of male–dominated science. As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she first proposed that symbiosis – when organisms live and work together – was a key driver of evolution, but she persisted. Through numerous collaborations she caused a seismic shift in our understanding of life.
Margulis' symbiotic narrative presents an alternative to the destructive worldview that has led to climate change and extreme capitalism. With James Lovelock she developed the Gaia Theory that all life is interconnected and interdependent. Her vision offers bold insights into health, society, and nature, and inspires creative approaches to our pressing environmental and social crises.
Symbiotic Earth is divided into 10 essays and an epilogue:
Introduction
1. How Lynn Margulis Coerced Me Into Making This Film
2. How Science Gave Us Permission to Exploit the Earth
3. Confronting the Neo-Darwinian Capitalistic Zeitgeist (aka: How Science Gave Us Permission to Exploit Each Other)
4. Lynn Margulis' Lifelong Quest
5. Working Together (aka: How Did She Do it All?)
6. Bacteria Run the Planet
7. Symbiosis is the Way of Life
8. The Cell (not DNA) Controls the Organism
9. Evolution Through Mergers
10. Gaia: A Physiological System on the Surface of the Earth
Epilogue: Embracing How Little We Know
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hummingbirdfilms.com/symbioticearth
Regenerating Life : How to cool the planet, feed the world, and live happily ever after
Regenerating Lifetakes an ecological approach to unpacking the social and environmental crises that confront us, shifting the prevailing climate change story, and offering new, attainable solutions. Regenerating Life finds that the climate and temperature of our planet are regulated by the system of life (the biosphere). By destroying the biosphere, we have caused the climate crisis. The destruction of the living soil through industrial agriculture, the destruction of forests, the destruction of the small water cycle – all of which result in bare, dry land – and the mining and burning of fossil fuels are all a part of the problem. Regenerating ecosystems, especially forests, fields, and wetlands, and covering the land with plants, will reduce the greenhouse effect, cool the planet, bring back fresh water, supply healthy food, and help us build our own healthy communities. The documentary is in three parts:
• Water Cools the Planet (42 minutes)
• Life Sustains the Climate (48 minutes)
• Small Farms Feed the World (47 minutes)
"With stunning photography, incisive interviews, humor and humanity, ecological filmmaker John Feldman's Regenerating Life makes a vivid and provocative case for a more nuanced and effective understanding of climate change. Feldman's documentary showcases and celebrates an active network of farmers and land restorers who are bringing damaged portions of the biosphere back to life." – Bruce Clarke, Emeritus Professor of Literature and Science, Texas Tech University
For more information visit
hummingbirdfilms.com/regeneratinglife
John Feldman
Filmmaker
John Feldman is a highly original and critically acclaimed writer and filmmaker. His works cover a wide range of genres, including independent dramatic feature films, documentaries, educational films and films for business. Since making his first film in 1968, Mr. Feldman has cultivated his skills as a writer, cinematographer, director, and editor. His goal is to continually develop his craft so that he can "write with pictures and sounds" fluidly, passionately and honestly.
"EVO: Ten Questions Everyone Should Ask about Evolution ought to be
available in every science classroom in the U.S."
– Peter Matthiessen
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